It's just a ride

THE truth can certainly come from anywhere or from anyone.

This is more or less how it goes:

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The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round a round, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because ... this is just a ride'.   And we kill those people.

'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account and my family. This has to be real.

It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demos run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close your self off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money that we (the US) spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded -  and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever... in peace.

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USA election 2008

So who would I vote in the USA 2008 election (if I could)? I would vote for Ron Paul. I actually would vote for Dennis Kucinich but he dropped from the race (darn!). 

My favourite Ron Paul's ideas: 

• Eliminate the federal reserve and go back to the gold standard. That alone would change the world in so many ways. If most countries would do that that would eliminate pretty much all wars, economic bubbles and busts, etc. Ever since 1913 or so we have been run by bank cartels. Both world wars and other wars have been created and funded on both sides by the bank cartels. The way money is created out of thin air causes inflation which is a flat tax on everybody but the elite. Also most of the income tax in the US and Canada is spend on paying the interest that central banks charge when they create money out of nothing! So they create money out of nothing and then charge interest on top! And we are paying our income taxes only for that! 
  
• Getting out of any wars. I guess everybody can agree with that. But in reality this could be accomplished as a side effect of eliminating the federal reserve and the bank cartels.
• Energy. That's another arm of the bank cartel: the energy cartel. Even though Ron Paul is focusing on the known energy technologies including nuclear, which I am not fond of, I like the idea of eliminating subsidies on nuclear. I, of course, like the tax credits on solar and wind energies. One thing though: I would love to see investment and support for other alternative energy sources such as zero point energy and cold fusion. That would completely change the civilization as we know it.
• Government secrecy. I have not found this on his list of issues but I have seen it mentioned in some of his speeches. I am for open government (who isn't). I would say that most of the secrecy in current governments is because they actually are the elite servants. And secrecy is used to maintain the illusion that governments are here to serve the general public.
• Wars and foreign policy. This is a big one. I mean the threat of war with Iran is scary. Not only that, the main reason why the US is at war with Iraq and Afghanistan is to limit the production of oil and keeping the prices up. Again this is done by the banking cartel via the governments (USA, Britain, Germany, etc). And now they are threatening to go to war with Venezuela? Also, they change governments all over the world, including the last stolen election in Mexico. So definitively I am for "non policing the world, talk and make deals with the countries of the world". 

Least favourite ideas:

• Health care. In principle he is right that the current way health care is handled in the US is appalling and that HMOs should be eliminated. But I don't agree with the argument that we Canadians would prefer the US health care. The canadian healthcare needs a lot of improvements and right now is currently under heavy attack by the Harper Conservative government by decreasing its funding and forcing private industry involvement (well, actually the health care industry is forcing this government to do so). But it is probably one thing that canadians are the most proud about. I love it. I mean the fact that when you have an accident or have to use the hospital for any reason, you don't have to worry at all how much it is going to cost is awesome! In this year alone I have saved a ton of money. My wife had a baby and we spend around 4 days at the hospital and that cost us zero dollars! Then she had a skin infection and had to have a small surgery plus multiple trips to the hospital to get IV antibiotics. My daughter had a wrist fracture and had to go to the emergency room and got a cast plus follow ups. And all the visits to the pediatrician and vaccines and whatnot. Everything at a cost of zero. Well not really, we need to pay a monthly fee of 108.00 canadian dollars. That's it! I mean how cool is that! But I would love to have the nordic system where they get the full royal treatment: Hospital, doctors, medicine, etc paid by taxes. All levels of school paid by taxes (all the way to PHD level, which is why the minimum level they consider worth doing is a masters degree). 
• Which is why I am not that big on small government. I mean, sure everybody would like to get the government off their backs (me too), but we the people via the government should be able to decide what is best for us. One thing that I would change in the way of laws is the corporation personhood. Which is where I coincide with Ron Paul.

This post could go on forever, but I think I capture the keystones of my ideas and why I would support Ron Paul (If I was a US citizen).

Healthy alternatives

I found this awesome health store just 2 blocks from my place. It's called Healthy Alternatives. Besides the healthy supplements, herbs, seeds and whatnot, they have a library about these subjects plus a large room where they have meditation and healing sessions most of them free of by donation. I mean what else do you need? The owner is open to other uses of the room, anything spiritually and healing related goes. Pretty nice.

Windy

I wonder if it shows that its windy.

General Currie school

This is the original General Currie school in Richmond.

The heat is on!

Right now it's 14 degrees. The wind is cold but the run stings!

Small town Richmond

One thing I like about Richmond is its small town feel. Even though there are a lot of high rises going us now. It still retains its small town feel. Open horizon.

Minuet in F major

Work in progress. She's getting good at it.

Ajua! / Yahoo!

El Caracol

Celebrando el día de las madres en el restaurante El Caracol.

Club penguin

Club penguin is a virtual world site for kids and teens and "others" types :). It was brought up at a recent conference about content management and web 2.0. Also second life was discussed of course. Did you know some companies use it as a collaboration tool? Cool. More power to them!

New building at no 3 and Granville

Yes, Richmond is growing like crazy.

Vancouver rush hour

Bussing around Vancouver

This is how it looks when ridding the bus in Vancouver.

What's money? / Que es el dinero?

That's a question that eluded me for a long time... until now. Get ready to be blown away!

Video: How much "money" exists on earth?

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Siempre me habia preguntado eso... hasta ahora. Les prometo que se les van a caer los calzones al ver esto!

Twitter is the rage! / Twitter es la nueva onda!

So I went to this conference in Vancouver called DoctrainWest and I found out about Twitter which is a mini-blogging tool where you post 140 characters or less and the idea is to be able to know what's going on with your friends chit-chat style without investing too much as in a blog. And you can keep doing it via SMS from you mobile (cell phone). You can also append your Twitter history to your blog or Facebook page, etc. Cool
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Acabo de ir a una conferencia en Vancouver que se llama DoctrainWest y me entere de Twitter que es una especie de mini-blog en que solo puedes escribir mensajes de 140 caracteres o menos. La idea es como una especie de chat y blog juntos. Y tambien se trata de que la comunicacion sea lo mas informal posible para que no inviertas mucho tiempo en cada post. Tiene la misma estructura de un blog en que es contenido permanente (supongo) y al que le interese tu vida privada puede leer lo que haces en base a lo que uno escriba. Puedes actualizarlo desde tu celular por medio de SMS. Y tambien puedes pegar tu miniblog a otros blogs. Vamos a ver que sale.

New template / Nuevo formato del blog

Long time no post! So I updated the template for this blog. Keeping up with the upgrades from Blogger.
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Hace mucho que no actualizaba este blog. Acabo de actualizar el formato de blog para poder utilizar las ultimas monerias de Blogger.